just passing through

Hope everyone had a great Eid! I actually did, for the first time. (I usually don’t enjoy Eid-ul-Adha because of smells and blood and dirty work) We had a nice mehndi/henna session for the girls and a family get together sitting around a fire on a cold wintry night…cousins and all, good times. alhamdulillah =)
I [...]

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I wish I could be focused.

My thoughts drift off to far off fantastical  places – an island in the middle of the black star strewn sky, a forest underground, a plane flying me to a familiar middle of nowhere – then I am back home to reality.
I glance at the clock behind me, it is late. How long have I [...]

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Film on the Life of the Prophet Muhammad (sallAllahu alayhi wasallam)

I wonder what the reaction of the Muslim world will be to this. Personally, I’m a bit apprehensive about this…even though they say they will not portray the Prophet (sallAllahu alayhi wasallam), I’m still afraid of how they will portray some incidents in his life, or his wives, etc.
Check out these links for more info:
Gulf [...]

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happy today

Assalamu Alaykum
Today is a happpy day =) My wordpress is working again yay. No more yucky email posts which do nothing to motivate me to write. I hope this lasts. InshaAllah.
So the past few days I have been listening to some new nasheeds by Zain Bhikha…from his new album The Beginning 1415. I really love [...]

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the nights are almost upon us…

I feel really bad for not updating with the next tafseer notes :( May Allah put barakah in my time ameen.
It’s raining like crazy here just now. The du’a for rain is:
Allahumma Sayyiban Nafi’an. (Oh Allah make it plentiful and beneficial)
[Bukhari]
And the last ten nights are almost here so I would just like to share [...]

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Maltesers make me happy

Had a very strange iftar today, ending with my favorite chocolates – maltesers yummm.
alhamdulillah for Ramadan…I get a chance to revise at least some tafseer and this time I wisely chose the 30th juz to revise so I could be more aware of the meanings as I recite the surahs in my daily prayers. So [...]

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Earn Some Easy Reward

MuslimMatters has some pretty awesome articles up on their site, regarding Ramadan.
I need to be more productive during my fasts. So lazy. Trying to review tafseer of the 30th juz and listening to lectures.
Here’s a list of easy good deeds to do this Ramadan (or any Ramadan for that matter) and getting a lot of [...]

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Welcome Ramadan!

It is finally Ramadan in Pakistan!!Fasting tomorrow inshaAllah :)
I need to come up with a timetable. Maybe I should open my Heartwheel Journal and see what it has for me in terms of organizing my day.
The Ramadan Moon song was fun but we didn’t have much time so they didn’t really get into it (although [...]

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So…

It seems that wordpress is blocked for me – can’t open any wordpress blogs or update my own blog except through the email method which is what I’m doing at the moment. Why would they block wordpress? Sillies.
On a happier note, we’re singing the Ramadan Moon song with the kids today, check it out on [...]

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Handwriting

I had a friend back in high school who was slightly obsessed by my handwriting: she wanted to make a font out of it and sell/share it on the Internet.
I had a teacher who hated my handwriting so much that she used to beg me to write a little bigger so that her eyesight would [...]

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